Thank you Rep. Doris Matsui for your tireless support of CCBHCs! Proud to be standing by your side with National Council for Mental Wellbeing as we work to expand the model that's bridging the #addiction treatment gap. c-span.org/video/?c473651…

A special thanks to Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Senator Roy Blunt for sponsoring today’s CCBHC congressional staff briefing! Your dedication to improving Americans’ lives through behavioral health care is truly appreciated. #Unite4BH

Thanks National Council for Mental Wellbeing Senator Roy Blunt Springfield PD @BurrellCenter for your advocacy around behavioral health access and CCBHCs. They are changing the landscape for behavioral health access in Missouri.

.@sencorygardner Please provide $38.5 billion for providers of mental health and addiction treatment and services. We cannot leave behavioral health behind as we fight to recover from COVID-19 #Unite4BH

.@senatorbennet Please provide $38.5 billion for providers of mental health and addiction treatment and services. We cannot leave behavioral health behind as we fight to recover from COVID-19 #Unite4BH

.@repjoeneguse Please provide $38.5 billion for providers of mental health and addiction treatment and services. We cannot leave behavioral health behind as we fight to recover from COVID-19 #Unite4BH

Join our Day of Action to make the promise of 988 a reality and pass the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act! thenationalcouncil.org/policy-action/… #988CantWait

States that imposed utilization restrictions on #behavioralhealth treatment had spillover effects elsewhere in health care - and in the criminal justice system - that resulted in increased spending. -Seth Seabury @SchaefferCenter BH&Economics Network #NatCon18

The benefits of #recovery are spread across all areas of a person's life - so to measure the cost-benefit of investing in treatment, you need to look beyond health care expenditures and consider the impact across a lifetime. @SchaefferCenter BH&Economics Network #NatCon18

Behavioral health investments do take money upfront, but when you can show the $$$ saved long-term (not to mention the improvement seen in people's lives), you can start to build wise, effective public policy. @SchaefferCenter #NatCon18

It's important to make the economic case for investing in #behavioralhealth, but it shouldn't be the sole basis of decisionmaking & isn't for other conditions: no one argues that investment in cancer care should depend on economic return on investment. BH&Economics Network #natcon18

.Linda Rosenberg on advocacy: "if you don't ask, the answer is always no" #NatCon18 National Council for Mental Wellbeing

We don’t rely on grants to fund treatment for heart disease & cancer - #mentalillness and #addiction should be no different. -Linda Rosenberg #NatCon18

“A mother writes to me, her homeless son has come in finally off the streets, in his pocket a badly worn clipping. He has circled these words, from my oped: There should be no shame in having a mental illness, only shame in not helping someone who does.” Pete Earley #NatCon18

Every day a new reason to admire and be inspired by @vitkaE. #NatCon18

“Just because you hear something other people don’t hear or see something other people don’t see, doesn’t mean you don’t deserve respect.” Glynn Washington #NatCon18

“The mental disease took so much from my brother... but it can’t take his story. Every time I talk about him, he rips a little bit back from the darkness.” Glynn Washington #NatCon18

“We all want this [CCBHCs] to be a permanent feature in Medicaid.” Rebecca Farley David #NatCon18 #Act4MentalHealth

“People are hard to hate close up. Move in.” -Brené Brown #natcon18